In addition to the value of this print as a collection of portraits, it may be observed that it contains the only known representation of the inside of the Lincoln's-Inn Fields Theatre. This playhouse was opened under the management of Betterton, with the comedy of _Love for Love_, which had a very considerable run. The _Beggars' Opera_, however, was of still superior attraction, and it carried all before it. After continuing open with various success for several seasons, the Lincoln's-Inn Fields playhouse finally closed, on the removal of the company to the new theatre in Covent Garden, and the building (the exterior of which is still entire) is now occupied as Spode's pottery warehouse. SLEEPY CONGREGATION. VOL. I. P. 192. The clergyman preaching is supposed to represent Dr. Desaguliers. But why Hogarth has assigned him this post of honour, does not appear. This gentleman was the son of a French Protestant clergyman; was educated at Cambridge, and held the donative of Whitchurch, in Middlesex. He was the first lecturer on experimental philosophy in the capital, and published his lectures in two vols. 4to. He died at his lodgings at the Bedford Coffeehouse, Covent Garden, Feb. 29, 1744, and was buried, March 26, at the Savoy. He is spoken of as a man of considerable talents, but possibly might have had a peculiarly inanimate mode of delivering his sermons, which occasioned Hogarth's satire. The original painting from which this print was engraved was lately in the possession of the late John Follett, Esq., of the Temple, London. It differs in some little particulars from the print. [Illustration: (end of section floral icon)] CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF HOGARTH'S WORKS, WITH THE VARIATIONS, ETC. 1720. 1. W. Hogarth, engraver, with two figures and two Cupids, "April y^e 20. 1720." I have seen a print on which was written, in Hogarth's hand, "Near the Black Bull, Long Lane." Of this card there is a modern copy. 1721. 1. An Emblematic Print on the South Sea; W. Hogarth, _inv. et sc._ Sold by Mrs. Chilcot in Westminster Hall, and B. Caldwell, printseller, in Newgate Street. _Second state_--Printed for Bowles. _Third state_--Without any publisher's name. Some wretched stanzas are engraved beneath the print. 2. The Lottery; W. Hogarth, _inv. et sculp._ Sold by Chilcot and Caldwell, price 1s. _Second state_--Printed for Chilcot. _Third state_--For Sympson. And in a _fourth_--For Bowles--"price 1s." is erased. An explanation with references is engraved beneath. The allegory of both these prints is obscure, but the figures are in the manner of Callot, and in a spirited and masterly style. 1723. Eighteen plates to Aubry de la Mottraye's _Travels_. Hogarth's name on fourteen of them. As these prints have such references as are hardly intelligible, and as Mr. Nichols' numbers and mine do not exactly agree, I have given a slight hint of the subject of each. 5. Vas mirabile ex integro Smaragdo, Genoæ, etc.